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Berlin’s immigration authorities are moving to deport four young foreign residents on allegations related to participation in protests against Israel’s war on Gaza, an unprecedented move that raises serious concerns over civil liberties in Germany.

The deportation orders, issued under German migration law, were made amid political pressure and over internal objections from the head of the state of Berlin’s immigration agency.

The internal strife arose because three of those targeted for deportation are citizens of European Union member states who normally enjoy freedom of movement between E.U. countries. None of the four has been convicted of any crimes.

“What we’re seeing here is straight out of the far right’s playbook,” said Alexander Gorski, a lawyer representing two of the protesters. “You can see it in the U.S. and Germany, too: Political dissent is silenced by targeting the migration status of protesters.”

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[–] jagermo@feddit.org 24 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

I have some notes on that. 3 of the 4 are EU citizens, that makes deportations highly complicated. I also can't find another source, ~~and the intercept has a history of pushing some shady things.~~ Something feels off.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What shady stuff have they published in the past? I’ve generally found their coverage good and they often cover stories like this that other mainstream sources won’t.

[–] jagermo@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago

You are right, I thought that Greenwald was still involved, but left in 2020. i did not like his downplaying of the trump Putin friendship

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

They are naming the people being deported, maybe one of our German friends can dig up some German articles with their names?

The four people slated for deportation, Cooper Longbottom, Kasia Wlaszczyk, Shane O’Brien, and Roberta Murray, are citizens of, respectively, the U.S., Poland, and in the latter two cases Ireland.

[–] djsp@feddit.org 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I searched for German articles about this, but found none. However, the three parties expected to form the next government –the SPD, the CDU and its Bavarian sibling, the CSU– are considering to weaponize migration background against “sponsors of terror, antisemites and extremists”, which could be construed to include some peaceful critics of the Israeli government and military and their actions and plans.

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Thanks. It is possible the American student contacted TheIntercept first. If TheIntercept is the first source then German media will likely pick up the story soon.

I also searched for the lawyer

“What we’re seeing here is straight out of the far right’s playbook,” said Alexander Gorski, a lawyer representing two of the protesters. “You can see it in the U.S. and Germany, too: Political dissent is silenced by targeting the migration status of protesters.”

Apparently Alexander Gorski is the same person who overturned Ghassan Abu-Sittah's ban from Germany which does lend a lot of credibility unless TheIntercept is straight up making up quotes from people out of thin air.

The International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP) announced in a social media post on Tuesday that it, along with lawyer Alexander Gorski and the European Legal Support Centre, had successfully challenged the travel ban imposed on Abu Sitta by Germany.

[–] amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 2 days ago

although this article is republished from the Intercept, here's some info about the author:

Hanno Hauenstein is a Berlin-based independent journalist and author. His work has appeared in publications including The Guardian, The Intercept, and Berliner Zeitung.

[–] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 days ago

The financial times and the Irish times have since picked it up.

[–] truthfultemporarily@feddit.org 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Yeah nothing in the taz - Germanys biggest left wing newspaper. Nothing in the Zeit and nothing in Tagespiegel (Berlin Newspaper) either.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hey, you didn’t happen to search this again today did you? Just curious, thank you!

[–] truthfultemporarily@feddit.org 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hi, a bunch of other newspapers have now reported this. They have independently verified it, including with the courts. Ex: https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/nach-beteiligung-an-palastina-protesten-in-berlin-drei-eu-burgern-und-einem-studenten-aus-den-usa-droht-ausweisung-13468543.html

Laut der Gerichtssprecherin hat das LEA den drei EU-Bürgern attestiert, sie seien eine „gegenwärtige Gefahr für die öffentliche Sicherheit und Ordnung“. Gestützt werde dies auf mehrere Strafverfahren mit Bezug zum Nahostkonflikt.

Dabei gehe es um Widerstand gegen Vollzugsbeamte nach Auflösung von Demonstrationen, Beleidigung, besonders schwerer Landfriedensbruch und die Verwendung von Kennzeichen terroristischer Organisationen, darunter auch der Spruch „From the River to the Sea“. Alle Personen seien, so der Vorwurf der Ausländerbehörde, Mitglieder einer gewaltbereiten Gruppe der propalästinensischen Szene, sagte die Gerichtssprecherin.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

Thank you for the follow up!!!

[–] fantasty@programming.dev 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Then it must be fake news and the >1000 people that got killed since the end of the ceasefire and the deliberate mass starvation of the people in Gaza who have to survive on a bowl of rice per day, all that isn’t happening right?

Because I don’t see any news about that at all by our oh so holy liberal left wing academic journalists. The bubble you live in is pathetic, don’t make it sound like all of us in Germany are as bigoted and blind to the amount of suffering our political and media elites are causing to the Palestinians through constant dehumanization and outright support of the genocide against them. I hate to live in the same country as people like you.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Heart. You’ve got it. It’s in the right place.

If I may offer my perspective-

My natural response here is “wow thank you for doing the legwork, maybe a German article will be posted later tonight, let’s check back“

[–] fantasty@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Thanks! Tough to do it sometimes but I don’t want this to become like Reddit or leave the narrative to people who dismiss anything they don’t like to hear as fake news. It’s enough that Trump made this a thing, I don’t think we need it here, especially in this case where imo there was never any evidence for this being fake news and now there’s indeed more articles.

[–] truthfultemporarily@feddit.org -1 points 2 days ago

I am sorry you cannot see the difference between an article that has not been corroborated and people claiming there is no genocide in Gaza.